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Embeddings Are Overpriced? A Frozen 16 MB Vocabulary for Small and Ternary Language Models

Bathula, Sai Kiran
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In a small language model the vocabulary is the single largest part. In Gemma 3 270M the embedding table holds 168M of 268M parameters, and because quantisation methods leave the embedding in 16-bit, it is also most of the file once the rest of the model is compressed. We ask what that table actuall
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